French, 16th century, male.
Died before 1564.
Potter. Decorative motifs.
Mentioned in documents from 1526, Abaquesne was the first ceramicist to set up in Rouen. His work shows the influence of Italian models. He made a series of panels for the chateau of Écouen and the chapel at La Bastie d'Urfé....
(before 1520–before 1564).
French potter based in Rouen. It is not known how he became a potter; he may have trained in the Italian workshops at the Château de Madrid in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, where Girolamo della Robbia was employed, or he may have worked under the direction of Flemish masters. There is, however, ansout obvious Italian influence on his work. Nothing is known of his work prior to the ornamental tiles and tiled pavings at the château of Ecouen, which are in the style of the Fontainebleau school (1542–59; Ecouen, Mus. Ren.). His best-known works are the tiles ordered by Claude d'Urfé (1502–58) in 1551 for the Château de la Bastie d'Urfé (now in Paris, Louvre) and the 4152 albarelli ordered in 1545 by the Rouen apothecary Pierre Dubosc.
P. Oliver: Masseot Abaquesne et les origines de la faïence de Rouen (Rouen, 1952)C. Leroy: ‘Avers et revers des pavements du château d'Ecouen’ [a reconstruction of the original floor design], ...German, 18th century, male.
Active still alive in 1782.
Born 1714, in Zerbst.
Miniaturist.
Brother of E. H. Abel and Ernst August Abel. After working for a time at the royal porcelain manufactory in Berlin, he gave up painting in favour of music, becoming first violinist in Schwerin. His sons Wilhelm, Christian August, and August, were his pupils....
[Abu Ṭāhir]
Persian family of potters. The family is sometimes known, somewhat improperly, by the epithet Kashani [al-Kashani, Qashani], which refers to their home town, Kashan. It was a major centre for the production of lustre pottery in medieval Iran, and they were among the leading potters there, working in both the Monumental and the Miniature styles (see Islamic art, §V, 3(iii)). As well as the lustre tiles for many Shi‛ite shrines at Qum, Mashhad, Najaf and elsewhere, they made enamelled and lustred vessels. Three other families of Persian lustre potters are known, but none had such a long period of production. At least four generations of the Abu Tahir family are known from signatures on vessels and tiles, including dados, large mihrabs and grave covers. The family may be traced to Abu Tahir ibn Abi Husayn, who signed an enamelled bowl (Cairo, Mus. Islam. A.). A lustre bowl in the Monumental style (London, N.D. Khalili priv. col.), signed by ...
Argentinian, 20th century, male.
Born 1912, near Buenos Aires.
Painter, potter.
Acebal Y Digoras went to Spain to study at the school of fine arts in Bilbao, then began to exhibit in Bilbao and Paris. After returning to Argentina, he regularly took part in the national salon, as well as in collective events in Latin America, such as the salon in Mar-del-Plata ...
Swiss, 19th century, male.
Born in Tafers (Fribourg).
Sculptor.
He was a monk who lived as a hermit at St Theodule near Memberg around 1850. He submitted modelled clay figures to various Swiss exhibitions. It is not known if he studied sculpture before taking orders....
German, 20th century, male.
Born 8 March 1918.
Sculptor.
Hans Achtziger worked primarily as a sculptor in decorative work, tin glazed earthenware and porcelain.
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1900, in Marciana Marina (Livorno); died 1971, in Milan.
Painter, ceramicist, illustrator, scenographer, writer. Stage costumes.
Futurism.
Giovanni Acquaviva studied philosophy and law at the University of Pisa, while devoting himself to illustration at the same time. He founded the Futurist group ...
Italian, 19th century, male.
Active in Naples at the beginning of the 19th century.
Sculptor, modeller (porcelain).
Four bisque medallions of the face of Napoleon are attributed to Pietro Paolo Acquaviva. He made them at the royal porcelain factory. Acquaviva was one of the artists who produced the decorations upon the return of the Bourbons to Naples. He was appointed a teacher of sculpture in ...
British, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1868, in Worcester; died 1947.
Painter. Landscapes.
Harry Adams worked as a decorative artist for the Royal Worcester Porcelain Factory for eight years, before going to study art at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1895. He first exhibited in ...
British, 19th century, male.
Born 1840, in Edmonton, Surrey; died 20 June 1906, in Ewhurst Hill, near Guildford.
Painter, watercolourist, engraver. Genre scenes, landscapes, landscapes with figures.
John Clayton Adams exhibited landscapes at Royal Academy exhibitions in London from 1863. He was a member of the New Watercolour Society and the Society of British Artists. He painted landscapes in the South of England....
Canadian First Nations (Oji-Cree), 20th century, female.
Born 28 March 1971, in Yorkton (Saskatchewan).
Installation artist, ceramicist, photographer, sculptor, printmaker.
KC Adams studied at Concordia University, in Montreal, Quebec, where she received her BFA in Studio Arts in 1998. Her artistic practice was further developed through artists’ residencies in Canada, at institutions in Banff, Charlottetown and Winnipeg. During her ...
Name of at least four potters in Staffordshire in the late 18th century and early 19th. The most distinguished William Adams (1746–1805) was the founder of Greengates Pottery, where the design and high quality of his jasper ware has led to the mistaken inference that he had been trained by Josiah Wedgwood; in fact he trained with John Brindley, brother of the canal builder James Brindley. His wares, of which some 300 examples are known to survive, are stamped Adams and Co. Apart from jasper ware, he also made underglaze blue-printed ware. He was succeeded by his son Benjamin, who ran the business until its closure in 1820.
The works of Adams of Greengates are sometimes confused with those of his three namesakes: William Adams (1748–1831) of Brick House, Burslem and Cobridge; William Adams of Stoke-on-Trent (1772–1829), who exported many blue-painted wares to the USA; and William Adams (...
German, 19th century, male.
Born 1786 or 1787, in Triesdorf near Ansbach; died 1842 or 1850, in Munich.
Painter (including porcelain), watercolourist. History painting, portraits.
He was first taught art by Professor Naumann in Ansbach. Later, around 1811, he worked at the royal manufactory in Nymphenburg, where he was appointed head and inspector of the painting workshop. In his genre, he is considered among the best German masters. His reputation is based mainly on his reproductions of old masters. Notable among his works are some large vases decorated with portraits of members of the Bavarian royal family....
(b Beirut, 1925).
Lebanese painter and writer active in the USA. Daughter of a Greek Christian mother and a Syrian Muslim father, Adnan was educated in Lebanon before going on to study philosophy at the Sorbonne, Harvard, and the University of California, Berkeley. For many years she taught aesthetics at Dominican College, San Rafael, CA; she also lectured and taught at many other colleges and universities. During the 1970s Adnan regularly contributed editorials, essays, and cultural criticism to the Beirut-based publications Al-Safa and L’Orient-Le Jour. In 1978 she published the novel Sitt Marie Rose, which won considerable acclaim for its critical portrayal of cultural and social politics during the early years of the Lebanese Civil War. Adnan published numerous books of poetry, originating in her opposition to the American war in Vietnam and proceeding to encompass topics as diverse as the landscape of Northern California and the geopolitics of the Middle East. Her poetry served as the basis for numerous works of theater and contemporary classical music....
French, 20th century, male.
Born 20 April 1900, in Chatillon-Coligny (Loiret); Jean died in 1995, Jacques died in 1984, both in France.
Painter, sculptor (including bronze/ceramics), decorative designer. Landscapes, figures, animals.
Jacques Adnet was an influential and important French designer, working during the height of the Art Deco movement, which first began just before World War I and continued through the 1940s. Jacques Adnet began his education with his twin brother, Jean, at the Municipal School of Design in Auxerre and later attended École des Arts Decoratifs in 1916, studying under architect Charles Louis Genuys. After graduating, Adnet honed his cabinetry and carpentry skills as an apprentice under French artist, architect, and designer Tony Selmersheim, and began working collaboratively with his brother, Jean. Their dual creations, most of which were furniture, were presented under a shared names as ‘J.-J. Adnet’. The twins exhibited their works at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes...
